January 2018
Has the level of awards for the wrongful death of a family member become more consistent, or are the complexities increasing? This article surveys recent cases
A new DWP consultation, with an early response date, sets out plans for revised calculation and better collection in current cases, but writing off of many old debts
An outline of the Trade Bill, part of the Brexit legislative framework, which also contains some of the controversial features of the main EU (Withdrawal) Bill
A civil practice casenote on the importance of the procedure rules of court and the rules surrounding an appeal against an extract decree
The fuller version of the article by the convener of the Society's Public Policy Committee on the work of the committee in its first year
In this issue
- Valuing loss of society: an elusive consistency
- Child maintenance: yet another DWP effort
- Trading futures
- Appeals and extracts: sticking to the rules
- Making the law work better (1)
- Reading for pleasure
- Opinion: Trish McLellan
- Book reviews
- Profile
- President's column
- 2018: keep up the momentum
- People on the move
- "One lifetime is not enough"
- Legally habit-forming
- Equality in service
- The Scottish draft Budget 2018-19: what happened?
- Legal software: has your supplier been bought out?
- Asset finance: time for reform
- Human trafficking from the defence perspective
- Contract law in flux
- The limits of appeal
- Attention media lawyers
- Disability: a new focus
- A tale of two Budgets
- System redesign
- 21st Century Bar rides again
- Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal
- Happy new year?
- Specialist accreditation scheme relaunches
- Public policy highlights
- Paralegal pointers
- Making the law work better
- At the cutting EDGE
- Confirmation declarations agreed
- Q & A corner
- Documents, data and the GDPR
- Ask Ash
- Appreciation: Ethel May Houston OBE